In party nedeth to knowe felingly

Cause and rote of al such malady.

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But I, alas! that am of witte but dulle,

And have no knowing of such matere,

For to discryve and wryten at the fulle

The woful complaynt, which that ye shal here,

But even-lyk as doth a skrivenere

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That can no more what that he shal wryte,